Manuel Ángel

Hugo Larson, who I thought might start this one.

Manuel Angel, Palacios, Kevin and Munoz all make up the bench as well for them.

Paddy? What do you make of that Fulham team there? Is there anyone missing that you thought might be playing? Eh...

You mentioned Larson, maybe.

Him against Berg.

When we were playing against Ipswich and we're 1-0 up and we're defending a lead and he takes off Shea Charles for 5'7", Manuel Angel, who's like some young lad who's played about 10 minutes for Real Madrid.

I'm thinking, why are we doing this? Probably not the baptism of fire I want from this young fella.

So, you know, I'll back him.

Yeah.

Is good.

I just, Manuel Angel, I just don't see why we bought him.

That's the only one I'm like, what's the logic here beyond the fact that you know him and he's from Real Madrid and we have the option to buy a Real Madrid player.

Look, somebody who's very much not 24, Tom Kearney, who I mentioned in the intro to this podcast.

And I tried to make the case for the substitution of Manuel Angel last week.

I mean, purely to be devil's advocate, right? Someone who's coming on to retain possession and keep things calm.

And we saw the real deal at doing that in Tom Kearney.

And I think the players looked...

They played so well yesterday that you can't imagine there is as much discontent behind the scenes as the media was playing up to the fact that there was.

So I think... it's Saturday game go up there play with the same confidence and I think we win I think you know 2-1 2-0 and I'm not going to bet my house on it because I rent and the landlord would be pissed off but the I just I do want to sort of think right this is where we kick on we've learnt from mistakes hopefully he doesn't bring on Manuel Angel for Shea Charles and we go in we come back three points in Everyone's happy, apart from a handful of people.

And our season is well underway.

You know, when Arbelos says there's a final for him, this is like judgment day for him on Saturday.

Like, what do you do? As long as I don't see Manuel Angel in the midfield, that is all I pray for.

I think we discussed this in the Ipswich Review last week about the midfield.

For me personally, I think he should keep the same XI as Ipswich.

And I think we're seeing the results of that now.

I will say on, o- on that, I, I agree with you that I don't think any other manager would necessarily sign Palacios and, and Manuel Angel.

I think that there were other clubs in the mix, uh, for, for Gonzalo Garcia, and he'd done enough to, at the very least, drum up interest from a variety of clubs.

I think the fact that he probably ended up at the Cottage definitely has something to do with Arbeloa.

We're moving on.

But then it's the farcical substitutions of bringing on Manuel Angel, who I believe is just over four foot tall.

in one of the most physically demanding atmospheres and not atmospheres but physically demanding situations that you can kind of go into trying to effectively at that stage the way that we were playing hold on to a lead against a quite physically demanding Ipswich team who have spent a hell of a lot of money on some quite good players this summer he's from what I've heard about him he's a really gifted footballer technically but he's he's tiny he's got nothing really to him and that that's not the situation where you take off a player like show charles who can be physically dominant and bring on someone like that and for me it is those substitutions and it is the way that he has set the team up after going heads that has lost us the game and that's where i think the accountability should lie and it shouldn't be again falling back on the players too much they obviously take a part of the blame sorry but yeah

Sam, can I try and defend the indefensible? Because someone asked me online, can you try and come up with a rationale behind those substitutions? There must be some thought process.

We weren't particularly good, but they were there to be got at.

And then to suddenly sit off like that and just allow them the ball, it just was thoroughly bizarre.

I don't know, is he trying to integrate someone like Manuel Angel into the squad? give him a bit of exposure to English football, think, oh, when we're 1-0 up, maybe this is a good time to do it.

And he can come on and dictate the play.

I, I'm losing my mind here about this suggestion about Benzema.

Like, Manuel, this is, this is why we're going down, lad.

But I'm, I'm scared.

We heard people yesterday calling for Kusiasari to be in the side.

Or how about this? How about this, right? Before the substitutes were came, were coming on we was fine midfield-wise with a midfield three of King, Charles, and Berger.

Charles looked tired though.

But yeah, I agree with that 100%, but at the same time he deserved to start, right? D- you, you what? Y- literally did Oblio actually think about starting Manuel Angel? The, the guy is like, he's...

Oh, he's, he's not that, he's not good enough.